by Michelle Lacey, Head of Wholesale, AXA IM In order to rebuild consumer trust in the financial services industry, we need to reassess what it means to act in the best interests of clients. As the ‘stewards’ of their clients’ investment portfolios, one effective way financial...
By Carly Hammond Impact Investment Forum Program Manager, Responsible Investment Association Australasia. Not quite three years ago, the 193 UN Members adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), hailed by the then Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as a ‘universal, integrated and...
By Simon O'Connor, CEO, Responsible Investment Association Australasia Ethical investment used to be pretty straight-forward – avoid your traditional sin stocks, and invest in the rest of your universe. Recent developments have shown us just how far we have moved on from those days of safe, simple...
$23 trillion dollars - that’s the important number from the recently released Global Sustainable Investment Review 2016, a report RIAA was pleased to be launching with our colleagues from around the world in London last week (report here). All of us in Australia and New Zealand...